Gabriela Mistral

Mi viaje en esta vida comenzo en una pequena aldea de Ghana, en Africa Occidental. Mi padre era sacerdote fetiche, un practicante de nuestra religion tradicional. De nino me hice cristiano, el primero de mi familia. Preste servicio en la Iglesia metodista durante muchos anos y alli se me conocio como un predicador fogoso. Luego encontre a los maestros ascendidos, las grandes almas de Oriente y Occidente, de todas las razas y religiones, que han regresado a Dios mediante el ritual de la ascension. Elizabeth Clare Prophet, su mensajera, se convirtio en mi mentora e instructora. He seguido el...

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...

Title: Memorias para la historia de la guerra de Tejas. Author: Vicente Filísola Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin...

Constantinopla, de Edmondo De Amicis, es el mejor de los libros escritos sobre Estambul en el siglo XIX. Orhan Pamuk, (Estambul, ciudad y recuerdos), Premio Nobel de Literatura 2006.